Benefits of starting a NGSS Chapter

Students, individually or as a team, participate in environmental service projects, including STEM projects that have a direct impact on the school and local environment.

Students are seen as environmental leaders in their school and community.

Members get real world experience by leading fundraising events, organizing and managing projects, working in teams, and making presentations.

Students have the opportunity to take on leadership roles on a national level.

NGSS partners provide project ideas and in many cases school funding for environmental service projects.

Graduating NGSS student members are honored at graduation with a distinctive NGSS stole when they meet specified requirements showing exemplary environmental stewardship with 100/200/300 service hours in environmental education and service.

NGSS facilitates student recognition and awards at the state and national level.

Chapter members use their environmental projects to qualify for scholarships and awards.

NGSS advisors:

NGSS national works with chapters to maintain momentum for environmental projects, education, and activism – creating vitality for active and productive chapters.

NGSS’s growing national network of environmental education, non-profit organizations, and business and government partners can help you organize events, programs, and resources. In some cases, partner organizations have funding for specific projects.

NGSS provides ongoing one-on-one support to your chapter to help you carry on the important work with your students.

NGSS includes service hours for eSTEM, STEM, and STEAM oriented projects.

Advisors and faculty receive regular updates, publications, news, and content that will help broaden the chapter’s impact on the environment, school, and students.

NGSS chapter schools or organizations

Your school or organization will receive a NGSS banner to announce/promote the school’s NGSS chapter.

Marketing material will be available to each school to help promote the NGSS chapter to students.

NGSS partners

We work collaboratively with our partners, which include non-profit organizations, government agencies, and businesses, to build a robust network of like-minded groups that provide environmental, energy, and sustainability education and literacy programs to k-12 schools.

Our partners form a strong network that is supportive of NGSS. NGSS promotes their programs, materials, training, projects, and funding opportunities to students and schools.

Many of our partners and supporters see NGSS as a strategic partner inside schools that can work directly with students and educators to maintain momentum for environmental service projects and student engagement.

Partner organizations also help us to advocate for students and raise the awareness of student voices as part of environmental policy and education.

NGSS and partners support social media platforms for greater outreach.